If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims "No Refunds" — Just bumping this to the top for awhile. — Great to see non-baseball sites like Boing Boing, Wired, Slashdot, Techdirt and others posting about this.

MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos — Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos.

Digg close to a $300 million sale? [Rumormonger] — Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company, I hear. When I floated this rumor that Digg was up for sale, my friends scoffed: "When isn't Digg up for sale?"

AMAZON TO HOST RED HAT LINUX ONLINE — Update: I added a lot more detail about Red Hat's ambitions and other moves. — Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com's Elastic Computing Cloud online service.

Format war fanboys shut down AVS Forum — Anyone who's ever visited AVS Forum—probably the largest online forum for audio/visual discussion—knows that people can get carried away. And anyone who has dared to venture in the HD DVD and Blu-ray forum is well aware of rampant fanboy flame wars …

Log Off and Get to Work — Turns out your bosses don't want you updating your social networking page at the office. — Web security firm Barracuda Networks polled 2,400 of its own customers and found that 50.2 percent block access to social networks MySpace and Facebook.

Attack of the 20%'ers — At Google, 20% time is core to our culture and today's Reader release incorporates features developed by two engineers in their 20% time. Those two engineers would be us! — Steve Lacey: As a blogger I like to include a blogroll on my site so that friends …

Facebook Ads — Today we announced an entirely new advertising solution for Facebook. Right now, we want to make clear what's changing—and what's not—for you. — First of all, what's not changing: — Facebook will always stay clutter-free and clean. — Facebook will never sell any of your information.

Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs — Let's put to rest the myth that an Apple computer will set you back more than a Windows PC. In fact, it'll cost you less. — It's time to buy an Apple computer. Indeed, it's been that time for the past five years, at least …

The Comcast Net Neutrality Controversy: A Discussion — On October 25, the Technology Liberation Front, a technology policy weblog, hosted an online discussion[1] concerning recent actions by Comcast Corporation to limit certain types of traffic on its network in order to manage demand.

Google maps find their way to gas pumps — The Internet giant will join with another firm to give directions at service stations. — Lost drivers soon will be able to Google for help at the pump. — As part of a partnership to be announced today, the online search leader …

AOL's New Plan: It's Not Working — Randy Falco is betting the entire AOL franchise on building up its advertising network. The Time Warner results released this morning show that the horse that the head of AOL is betting on is slowing down. — AOL sold $540 million in ads in the third quarter …

The power of the Web with Opera Mini 4 — After three betas we're proud to release the shiny new Opera Mini 4 to the world. — We've done a lot with this new Opera Mini. For example, we rewrote the entire code for Opera Mini 4 and added lots of improvements and new features to make the browser even better.